Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday in a surprise decision that made him the first singer and songwriter to win the honor.
The 75-year-old, who has toured almost continuously since 1988, played a scheduled concert in Las Vegas on Thursday evening.
Fans arriving for the show welcomed the news of his prize.
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Dylan, who won the prize for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” joins a long line of novelists, poets and playwrights Nobel laureates including Octavio Paz, Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway.
